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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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Species
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TILLANDSIA KEGELIANA Mez
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PlaceOfPublication
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DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:725. 1896.
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Description
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Leaves many in a dense rosette, 12-17 cm. long; sheaths broadly ovate, over 3 cm. long, thin, castaneous-lepidote; blades often secund, involute-subulate, acuminate, 5 mm. wide, rigid, densely pale-lepidote. Scape slender, ascending, very short, glabrous. Scape-bracts densely imbricate, lance-ovate, long-caudate, appressed-lepidote. Inflorescence simple, exceeded by the leaves, densely 6- to 8- flowered, elliptic in outline, strongly complanate, 40-55 mm. long, 30-35 mm. wide. Rhachis undulate, angled, glabrous. Floral bracts suberect, densely im- bricate, acuminate from a broadly elliptic base, incurved, 3 cm. long, 16 mm. wide, fleshy, bright red when fresh, minutely rugulose and blackish when dry, glabrous. Flowers erect or suberect. Pedicels short and thick. Sepals free, elliptic, obtuse, 2 cm. long, coriaceous when dry, densely punctulate-lepidote, slightly nerved. Petals over 4 cm. long, dark purple. Stamens exserted. Capsule subprismatic, over 5 cm. long.
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Distribution
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Panama, Colombia, Surinam.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: forests around Yaviza, southern Darien, Pittier 6583.
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